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Telling the Invisible. Graphic Strategies for the Narration of the Roman necropolis of Porta Palio in Verona

2022; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-04632-2_34

2661-8192

Francesca Picchio, Francesca Galasso,

Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation

During the “Italy 1990s” World Cup, the city of Verona became the site of an important archaeological discovery. The modernization works of the city’s infrastructures have allowed exhuming a Roman necropolis of the imperial age along the Via Postumia, outside one of the main entrances to the city. Thirty years later, the UNESCO Office of the Municipality of Verona and the Soprintendenza Archeologica promoted an exhibition that would tell the story of the discovery of the necropolis, involving the University of Pavia for a communicative graphic strategy telling of the archaeological excavation, now invisible. The investigations undertaken were aimed at understanding the events that characterized the excavations and archaeological discoveries. From these events, it was possible to synthesize the information collected and develop operational methodologies for an inclusive and replicable virtual narration of another necropolis. The exhibition designed inside Porta Palio aims inspiring users to learn information through an emotional involvement by integrating multiple forms of communication: signs and languages that have characterized the information of the twentieth century will be updated with unpublished digital products, drawings, illustrations, and interactive virtual models. These new elements will make it possible to produce a story that is a starting point for a collective imagination that approaches and connects, through the drawing, the community to its own territorial and cultural context.